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- From: louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis A. Mamakos)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: Unresolved references when linking
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 01:22:25 GMT
- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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- References: <1992Dec22.173036.7075@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec22.173036.7075@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> quarrie@cds001.cebaf.gov (David Quarrie) writes:
- >--
- >The following is relevant to NeXTSTEP3.0.
-
- And, actually NeXTSTEP 2.x and earlier, too.
-
- >I'm experiencing problems with unresolved references when using archives (.a).
- >This isn't just my own .a files, but also libX11.a for X-Windows. As far as
- >I can ascertain, it's a problem with global symbols instead of global routines
- >and can be illustrated by the following (I haven't actually done the following
- >since I'm not in front of my NeXT but I think it should illustrate the
- >problem):
-
- [...example omitted...]
-
- >Am I doing something stupid? Is it a case of RTFM? So far I've managed to force
- >linking to succeed by extracting the appropriate .o files from the library
- >and explicitly linking them, but I wouldn't have thought I should need to do
- >that.
-
- Stupid? Well, I don't think so. Yes, RTFM, specifically 'man
- ranlib'. I think the -c option will do what you need.
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- louie
-